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Auction: 21060 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part III: Collector's Selection
Lot: 626

Anglo-Saxon England, Primary Series (680-710), Sceat, 'Saroaldo', type 11, disintegrated bust right with diadem low on forehead, annulet before, eye and nose in square, pellet lips, annulet before, crescent ear, ladder collar, rev. FIT|VR in beaded standard, central pellet, recumbent S above, tufa left enclosing two pellets, 1.00g, 90° (SL 7-20; SCBI 69, 138 this coin; T&S pp. 147-51, 151-4; Gannon 49, 128, 172, no. 114, 174, 177, no. 142 and 143, 184; no. 22, 185, and Fig. 4.31; Spink 784), light porosity, cleaned and chipped, otherwise about very fine, extremely rare

provenance
M Roberts, August 2011

~ Reputedly from a Canadian Collection ~

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£200

Starting price
£350